In fact, this is so far away from your other work that I refuse to believe it was done by the same person. I could've sworn I've heard these exact compositions somewhere else under another name, but that's just me. There are hints of brilliance in this album, don't get me wrong. the drum patterns on "may flights", while mostly uninspired, tend to be reaching the level of genius in terms of technicality. There are moments of "evil calm" that bring together the otherwise unblended instruments together to cohesively give a few miniature moments of brilliance, but then return to their ways of regretfully living together in the same song. The album follows this suit, while showing some really cool moments, really has a bunch of pointless detours from what I feel to be the point of this album, which is to bring innovation to trip-hop and the likes, which he does in one song, "fusion ha", which is the stand out track.
Most of the album is a series of mini-drones with distorted drums behind them, and this would be totally normal under another moniker, but knowing the previous work of the artist tends to get me thinking if they were completely in this album full force or not. This artist's usual attention to detail is what really got me to become a fan of his, if you may, but I just don't see any of that attention here. It's as if these are rough drafts to a potentially mind-blowing album.
Overall, I'm disappointed with this release and hope "i am this" stays with his calling card of his past albums.
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